🤯 FREE UNLIMITED Claude Code Alternative That Never Expires (No Ollama, No NIM) — Transcript

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1. 0:00So guys, just like me, you've probably searched all over YouTube for how we can use Claude
2. 0:04Code for free. But in every single video, they hand you either Ollama or
3. 0:10NVIDIA NIM, or just pick up some random platform whose
4. 0:14limits run out within a few minutes. And then you have to go searching
5. 0:18on YouTube again to find some other alternative. But your search is now
6. 0:23over, because you've landed on the right video. Today I'm not going to tell you
7. 0:29the same alternatives everyone else is telling you. Today I'm going to show you a
8. 0:33permanent alternative that will always work. And this alternative
9. 0:38will never expire. And I already know that if you've clicked on this video,
10. 0:43it means you came to my videos only after watching lots of other videos.
11. 0:47And how to get your coding done for free — I keep posting all these videos on my channel.
12. 0:52So you can subscribe to our channel for all these
13. 0:55updates. So guys, you all know Claude Code is paid, and you have to pay
14. 1:00around $20 per month for it. And it's a really good tool. If you can genuinely
15. 1:05afford it, then there's nothing better. But for college students,
16. 1:10using this paid Claude Code tool gets pretty hard, because they don't have that
17. 1:15much money. So for that, today I'll show you a free alternative to Claude Code
18. 1:20where we'll use brand-new models, because in the AI world lots of
19. 1:24new models keep coming out. And because these companies need to promote their models,
20. 1:30they run campaigns on a lot of platforms. And for some time
21. 1:35they give their models away for free. So we'll use exactly these models
22. 1:39to get our coding done. And today I'll tell you about three providers
23. 1:44where all these companies offer their models for free, to promote
24. 1:49their models. So the first company is OpenCode, and to see OpenCode's free
25. 1:55models you simply click on Zen. Then click on Log in.
26. 1:59And simply log in with Google. So here I'll log in with
27. 2:02my Google account. After logging in, you'll find the Models section here.
28. 2:07Simply type "free" here. After typing "free", all the
29. 2:12free models available here will show up. And you can see we're getting
30. 2:17quite a lot of models for free here. So these are OpenCode's free
31. 2:21models. And which models to code with — I'll tell you that after showing all three companies and
32. 2:26collecting all the models. And after this, our second company
33. 2:32is OpenRouter. Here too, we simply sign in. And yes guys, all the
34. 2:36links I'm using in this video, you'll find them all in the description.
35. 2:41You can go there and copy-paste them. So simply click
36. 2:45Sign up here. After clicking Sign up, you can log in with GitHub or
37. 2:49Google. I'll log in with my GitHub here. After logging
38. 2:53in, it'll take you to the dashboard. On the dashboard you'll find the models
39. 2:58here. And you can see there's a search option here. Simply
40. 3:02type "free" here. After that, click on Table view
41. 3:07here. Then you can see you'll get a lot of models for free here. And this
42. 3:12list is pretty long. So these are OpenRouter's models. Then after this, our
43. 3:17third provider is Kilo Code. For that we don't need to open a website.
44. 3:21For that we simply download and install VS Code on our
45. 3:26computer. And if you want to know how to install VS Code the right way,
46. 3:30you can watch our VS Code Windows video or the Mac video
47. 3:34too. Then I'll simply open my VS Code. After opening VS Code,
48. 3:38go to the Extensions tab here. Then search for Kilo Code here. Then
49. 3:43install this extension. And you can see how many
50. 3:46downloads it has. Make sure you install only this official extension with the tick.
51. 3:51After installing it, you'll get a Kilo Code tab here. Click on
52. 3:56it. Then after this, Kilo Code gives you some models for free.
53. 4:00For example, if I type "free" here, you can see it says Kilo
54. 4:03Gateway. Kilo Code is giving you all these models for free.
55. 4:08And you can use it right inside VS Code in your projects. So say
56. 4:12you opened your project in VS Code, then inside that same VS Code you can go to Kilo
57. 4:17Code and get coding done in that project from here. And that too completely
58. 4:21free. And the two providers we have left — because Kilo Code's models we'll get
59. 4:25in Kilo Code itself — but OpenCode and OpenRouter,
60. 4:31we'll set those up inside Kilo Code today too, so we get all the
61. 4:36providers in one place. All the free models in one place. You can see I've
62. 4:39set it up here. If I type "free" here, you can see there's Kilo
63. 4:43Code, there's OpenCode and there's OpenRouter. The free models of all of them
64. 4:49are now available to me here. And now I'll show you how to set
65. 4:53them up. So after installing Kilo Code, simply go to the Settings tab
66. 4:57here. After going to the Settings tab, click on Providers
67. 5:00here. Then click on Show more providers here. After that,
68. 5:04type OpenCode and you'll find one called OpenCode. I've already added it,
69. 5:10that's why it's not showing here. Let me disconnect it for now
70. 5:13so I can show you. So now I'll simply go to More providers here. Then
71. 5:18I'll type OpenCode here. You can see the OpenCode option has appeared. Here
72. 5:22I'll click, and now I need to enter my OpenCode API key here.
73. 5:27For that I'll have to go to my browser where I'm logged in to
74. 5:32OpenCode. So I'll go to OpenCode, and after that I need to go
75. 5:36to my profile here, and click on Settings here. You can
76. 5:40also get to Settings from here. Then after that, go to Service Accounts.
77. 5:43Then click on Add Service Account. Then after that, you can
78. 5:47simply enter anything here. I'll enter "cc". Leave the expiration
79. 5:52on Never here. For now I'll put one day here. And here I'll
80. 5:55click Create. After this you'll get a key. Copy this key.
81. 5:59And simply go back to VS Code, paste this key and
82. 6:04click Submit. Now you can see our OpenCode is connected
83. 6:09here. Now we'll connect OpenRouter. Mine is already connected. Here, if you
84. 6:13click Show more providers and search OpenRouter, it'll show up for you. But
85. 6:18it's not showing for me. So I'll click on Change API key here. After
86. 6:22that, you'll need to enter OpenRouter's API key here. So for that we have to go
87. 6:26to OpenRouter, and click on your profile here. After going to your profile,
88. 6:31simply go to Workspaces here. After going to Workspaces,
89. 6:34go to the Default workspace. If you don't see it, you can also create a new
90. 6:37workspace. Then after going into the workspace you'll get the API Keys
91. 6:41option. Click on it. Then after that, click on New API key.
92. 6:45Then you can write anything in it. You can set any expiration. I
93. 6:49generally set no expiration. But for this video I'll set one hour
94. 6:54here. Then you need to set a credit limit. I generally click No limit here
95. 6:59and click Create. Then after this I've got a key here.
96. 7:02I'll copy it. And where I had to enter the key for OpenRouter, I'll
97. 7:07submit it there, in VS Code. And you can see our OpenRouter
98. 7:12is now connected too. So now your setup is complete. Now you can get
99. 7:16AI to code for you for free. And you can go to model selection here and see,
100. 7:22by searching "free", that all the free models from all three providers are
101. 7:27now listed here. And you can select any model here and simply get it to
102. 7:32code for you. To test it, I'll type "hey" here to show you whether it's
103. 7:36working or not. So you can see it's working. So now comes
104. 7:40our main question: which model should we use? Which model is good? How will we
105. 7:46find out? So for that, simply go to your browser here. Then
106. 7:51go to the Models tab in OpenRouter here. After that, switch to Table view
107. 7:56here. Type "free" here. And you'll find Table settings here. Go
108. 8:00there and remove Input and Output here. Then after that,
109. 8:05tick Performance. Then after that, tick Artificial Analysis as well.
110. 8:09After that you'll get all the stats. Then simply copy this whole
111. 8:14table. After copying the whole table, simply open your Gemini.
112. 8:19Sign in with your Google account here. Then paste
113. 8:23this here. Then after that, copy your OpenCode models
114. 8:28here too. I'll search by typing "free" here. So these models
115. 8:33here, I'll copy all of them and paste them here. So now we have the models
116. 8:38from both providers. Then after this, we need to copy Kilo Code's models.
117. 8:42So go to the Kilo Code website. You'll find a hamburger icon here.
118. 8:47Go into it and click on Models here. Then click on Free
119. 8:51Coding Models here. Then click on View free models
120. 8:55here. And after this, simply copy all the models here
121. 9:00and paste them into Gemini. Then you have to write a prompt: "Give me top 3
122. 9:05models for coding which have high intelligence and high context and high
123. 9:14parameters." Then press Enter here. So Gemini will tell you all the best
124. 9:19models. Likewise, instead of top 3 you can ask for top 5 models too.
125. 9:24It'll give you the top 5 models as well. So in the models it gives
126. 9:28you here, keep in mind to look at the parameter count.
127. 9:33So the best model here in my opinion, the one I use,
128. 9:37is Thinking Machines' Inkling model. So I mostly use this model,
129. 9:42because its parameter count is very high, and its intelligence and everything
130. 9:46else is pretty good. Then after this, I use NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra.
131. 9:50That's the second-best model. Then we've got their
132. 9:55Inkling Small, then Google Gemma, and then Nemotron 3 Super. So first of all,
133. 10:01I use this one. So to use it, I simply go to VS Code.
134. 10:06After going to VS Code, select the model here. Go into Kilo Code,
135. 10:10then type "free" here, and the Inkling model here
136. 10:16is provided by OpenRouter. And you have to check whether this model
137. 10:20is also available on the others. For example, OpenRouter is already giving
138. 10:24this model. Maybe Kilo and OpenCode are giving it too. So check that
139. 10:29as well. Then you'll get 2x the limit. For example, you used Inkling from OpenRouter
140. 10:34and you finished today's limit, or the per-hour limit
141. 10:38you get — then you can switch to Kilo Code, and after that to the others
142. 10:43too. So if I search "Inkling free" here, I can
143. 10:46see that Kilo Code is giving its Small version, but OpenRouter
144. 10:51is giving its main version for free. So now I can code with it too. So guys,
145. 10:56all these models will keep getting updated; you just have to follow the same process
146. 11:00I showed you, and you'll be able to use it unlimited for a very long time to come.
147. 11:06And now, how to code with it? How to build beautiful websites with it? If
148. 11:10you want to know that, just comment. I'll bring that exact video for you
149. 11:15next. So guys, that's it for today's video. See you in the next
150. 11:18video. Until then, keep compiling the future.